Homeless Good Samaritan finds, turns in $42,000, police say

A man who lost more than $40,000 and his passport this weekend got it all back after a homeless Good Samaritan found it and turned it in, police said.

Just before 6 p.m. Saturday, a man approached police saying he found a backpack filled with $2,400 cash, $39,500 in American Express Travelers Cheques and a passport outside a TJ Maxx store in Dorchester, according to police.

A short time later, a Best Buy employee called police to report a customer had lost a bag containing money and personal documents.

The bag was returned to the man a short time later.

Police said the man who found the bag gave them the address of a homeless shelter as his current address.

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